American recipes with 300 or fewer calories

Country Fried Potatoes Made Skinny

There’s something quite wonderful about potatoes, onions and butter sautéed until golden and crisp. It’s one…

Kumquat Mojito

One of the greatest things about this tiny orange-like fruit is that you can eat it whole. In fact, it's probably the only citrus fruit that you…

Salsa Taquera

This fresh, somewhat hot salsa is great as a dip for chips, and for eggs and tortilla dishes.

Easy Margaritas for a Large Group

Tasty Maragaritas in less than 30 seconds, which leaves you more time to spend with your guests.

Vegetarian Pinto Beans

A family crock-pot favorite. Simple, easy, and delicious.

Aunt Birdie’s Easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake (Two Versions)

This recipe brings fond memories of a favorite aunt who was a terrific cook. (My cousin and I used to say the…

Lemon Cookies

I had a dream of eating lemon cookies during my afternoon nap yesterday. This may sound crazy but once I woke up, I quickly browsed for lemon…

No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

stuffed pastry

These can be stuffed with cheese, meat or potatoes... Sometimes I stuff them with whatever is left over from dinner.

Corn Muffins

This is an old recipe.

Super 8 Sugar Cookie

Easy sugar cookie, with several variations, including coconut, peanut butter, date/nut, cinnamon and more.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Holes

My second favorite thing after a donut is of course the donut hole. The perfect, one mouthful bite of deliciousness! This recipe is a basic recipe…

Carrot Raisin Cookie Bars

I love baking from scratch - sometimes the more ingredients the better. Other times not so much. This cookie bar recipe uses a cake mix to cut…

Orange Chipotle Vinaigrette

This recipe is adapted from one by Julie Campoy in her book Julienne. I made some changes to it. I added garlic, used more honey and reduced 50%…